A natural history of Latin [[electronic resource] /] / Tore Janson ; translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgård Sørensen and Nigel Vincent |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina | 470.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SørensenMerethe Damsgård
VincentNigel |
Soggetto topico |
Latin language - History
Latin language, Medieval and modern - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-155023-X
1-280-75659-4 0-19-153238-X 1-4294-7068-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Part I: Latin and the Romans; Lingua latina: a first acquaintance; The earliest period of Rome; How Latin became Latin; From small town to great power; How bad were the Romans?; A voice from early Rome; The meeting with Greece; Theatre for the people; The age of revolutions; Writing, reading, listening, and speaking; Speeches, politics, and trials; Cicero and rhetoric; The language of history; Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman empire; Name and family; Years and months; Latin becomes the language of Europe; Poetry and poets; Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
The schools and QuintilianThe sciences; Everyday language; Laws and legal language; Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain; Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion; Part II: Latin and Europe; Europe after Rome; From Latin to the Romance languages; Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages; Latin in Britain; Latin in schools; Speaking and spelling; Books and scribes; Saints and heretics; The guardians of the heritage; Poetry after antiquity; Abelard and Héloïse; The thinkers; The Renaissance; Doctors and their language; Linnaeus and Latin; Physicists, chemists, and others Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry PotterLoanwords and neologisms; Latin and German; Latin and French; Latin and English; Latin and us; Part III: About the Grammar; Introduction; Pronunciation and stress; Sentences, verbs, and nouns; Words and word classes; Nouns; Adjectives; Pronouns; The forms of the verb; Amandi and Amanda; How words are formed; Part IV: Basic Vocabulary; Part V: Common Phrases and Expressions; Suggested reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451617803321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A natural history of Latin [[electronic resource] /] / Tore Janson ; translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgård Sørensen and Nigel Vincent |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina | 470.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SørensenMerethe Damsgård
VincentNigel |
Soggetto topico |
Latin language - History
Latin language, Medieval and modern - History |
ISBN |
0-19-155023-X
1-280-75659-4 0-19-153238-X 1-4294-7068-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Part I: Latin and the Romans; Lingua latina: a first acquaintance; The earliest period of Rome; How Latin became Latin; From small town to great power; How bad were the Romans?; A voice from early Rome; The meeting with Greece; Theatre for the people; The age of revolutions; Writing, reading, listening, and speaking; Speeches, politics, and trials; Cicero and rhetoric; The language of history; Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman empire; Name and family; Years and months; Latin becomes the language of Europe; Poetry and poets; Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
The schools and QuintilianThe sciences; Everyday language; Laws and legal language; Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain; Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion; Part II: Latin and Europe; Europe after Rome; From Latin to the Romance languages; Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages; Latin in Britain; Latin in schools; Speaking and spelling; Books and scribes; Saints and heretics; The guardians of the heritage; Poetry after antiquity; Abelard and Héloïse; The thinkers; The Renaissance; Doctors and their language; Linnaeus and Latin; Physicists, chemists, and others Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry PotterLoanwords and neologisms; Latin and German; Latin and French; Latin and English; Latin and us; Part III: About the Grammar; Introduction; Pronunciation and stress; Sentences, verbs, and nouns; Words and word classes; Nouns; Adjectives; Pronouns; The forms of the verb; Amandi and Amanda; How words are formed; Part IV: Basic Vocabulary; Part V: Common Phrases and Expressions; Suggested reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777812603321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A natural history of Latin [[electronic resource] /] / Tore Janson ; translated and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgård Sørensen and Nigel Vincent |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina | 470.9 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SørensenMerethe Damsgård
VincentNigel |
Soggetto topico |
Latin language - History
Latin language, Medieval and modern - History |
ISBN |
0-19-155023-X
1-280-75659-4 0-19-153238-X 1-4294-7068-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Part I: Latin and the Romans; Lingua latina: a first acquaintance; The earliest period of Rome; How Latin became Latin; From small town to great power; How bad were the Romans?; A voice from early Rome; The meeting with Greece; Theatre for the people; The age of revolutions; Writing, reading, listening, and speaking; Speeches, politics, and trials; Cicero and rhetoric; The language of history; Imperium romanum: Augustus and the Roman empire; Name and family; Years and months; Latin becomes the language of Europe; Poetry and poets; Philosophy: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca
The schools and QuintilianThe sciences; Everyday language; Laws and legal language; Tacitus, the emperors, and Britain; Christianity: from dangerous sect to state religion; Part II: Latin and Europe; Europe after Rome; From Latin to the Romance languages; Missionaries, Latin, and foreign languages; Latin in Britain; Latin in schools; Speaking and spelling; Books and scribes; Saints and heretics; The guardians of the heritage; Poetry after antiquity; Abelard and Héloïse; The thinkers; The Renaissance; Doctors and their language; Linnaeus and Latin; Physicists, chemists, and others Alchemy, witchcraft, and Harry PotterLoanwords and neologisms; Latin and German; Latin and French; Latin and English; Latin and us; Part III: About the Grammar; Introduction; Pronunciation and stress; Sentences, verbs, and nouns; Words and word classes; Nouns; Adjectives; Pronouns; The forms of the verb; Amandi and Amanda; How words are formed; Part IV: Basic Vocabulary; Part V: Common Phrases and Expressions; Suggested reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827703203321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speak [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of languages / / Tore Janson |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 417.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Language and history |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-44625-0
9786610446254 0-19-154482-5 1-4237-6739-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451872503321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Speak [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of languages / / Tore Janson |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 417.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Language and history |
ISBN |
1-280-44625-0
9786610446254 0-19-154482-5 1-4237-6739-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Maps vi -- List of Tables vi -- Preface vii -- 1. Languages Before History I -- 2. The Large Language Groups 29 -- 3. Writing and the Egyptians 57 -- 4. Greek and the Greeks 69 -- 5. Latin and the Romans 89 -- 6. Did Dante Write in Italian? 108 -- 7. From Germanic to Modern English 129 -- 8. The Era of National Languages 165 -- 9. Languages of Europe and of the World 184 -- 10. How Languages Are Born-or Made 202 -- II. How Languages Disappear 232 -- 12. The Heyday of English 251 -- 13. And Then? 267 -- Suggestions for Further Reading 283 -- Index 291. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777557303321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Speak [[electronic resource] ] : a short history of languages / / Tore Janson |
Autore | Janson Tore <1936-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
Disciplina | 417.7 |
Soggetto topico |
Historical linguistics
Language and history |
ISBN |
1-280-44625-0
9786610446254 0-19-154482-5 1-4237-6739-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Maps vi -- List of Tables vi -- Preface vii -- 1. Languages Before History I -- 2. The Large Language Groups 29 -- 3. Writing and the Egyptians 57 -- 4. Greek and the Greeks 69 -- 5. Latin and the Romans 89 -- 6. Did Dante Write in Italian? 108 -- 7. From Germanic to Modern English 129 -- 8. The Era of National Languages 165 -- 9. Languages of Europe and of the World 184 -- 10. How Languages Are Born-or Made 202 -- II. How Languages Disappear 232 -- 12. The Heyday of English 251 -- 13. And Then? 267 -- Suggestions for Further Reading 283 -- Index 291. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815612503321 |
Janson Tore <1936-> | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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